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word smithing

 

 

As an automotived mental exercise and to expand my phraseology, I like to play with words, phrases, dysphemisms, etc..

 

Some past results of this were;

  • the phrase of “drive by photo-booth” as euphemism for speeding-camera.

  • the term “fwiends/(friends) im blue” as euphemism for the police (common governmental organisation NOT the music group).

  • “automotivated” to fill a gap (at least to my knowledge) in the english lexis to improve expressing myself using fewer words; to share both circumstance and mindset of my word smithing; used synonymously to “I truly do it for no particular reason with no exterior motivation”.


As I have (hopefully successfully) expressed in the prior lines of this text, I truly “have not the slightest” as for the causes of me smithing words.

Though I may speculate.

Language has the grandest potential for elegance.

 

This to the point where I would claim;

that few, if any beings to (have) exist(-ed), have and will ever even approach utilisation of any language.


Then again, I am a scholar of two, master of none and therefore ignorant to the vast majority of human language potential.


Herewith I put forth the hypothesis that I “word smith” to maximise the distance to the brutish use of language(s).


 

Post Scriptum:

For a while now I’d thought of “word smithing” as a creation of mine; turns out it has been sighted in the wild, in the way(s) I use the term.